Cooper's Novels, Volume 5Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... Nelson , than all the rest of the dominions of Neptune together . Nature and the passions have united to render it like the human countenance , which conceals by its smiles and godlike expression , the furnace that so often glows within ...
... Nelson , than all the rest of the dominions of Neptune together . Nature and the passions have united to render it like the human countenance , which conceals by its smiles and godlike expression , the furnace that so often glows within ...
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... Nelson , than all the rest of the dominions of Neptune together . Nature and the passions have united to render it like the human countenance , which conceals by its smiles and god- like expression , the furnace that so often glows ...
... Nelson , than all the rest of the dominions of Neptune together . Nature and the passions have united to render it like the human countenance , which conceals by its smiles and god- like expression , the furnace that so often glows ...
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... Nelson wasn't so over - scrupulous , at the Nile , about burning your ships , Mr. Rule- " " Tonnère ! why do you always bring in that malheureux Nile ? Is it not enough that we were beaten - disgraced- destroyed — that a friend must ...
... Nelson wasn't so over - scrupulous , at the Nile , about burning your ships , Mr. Rule- " " Tonnère ! why do you always bring in that malheureux Nile ? Is it not enough that we were beaten - disgraced- destroyed — that a friend must ...
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... Nelson , my gallant countryman , annihilate them near the mouth of the Nile . I did not consider it proper to boast ... Nelson's own ship , having been accidentally sent on service from the frigate to which he properly belonged , and ...
... Nelson , my gallant countryman , annihilate them near the mouth of the Nile . I did not consider it proper to boast ... Nelson's own ship , having been accidentally sent on service from the frigate to which he properly belonged , and ...
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... Nelson did at Aboukir , Signor Podestâ , a battle you seem so much to admire . " " That would be a manœuvre worthy of a follower of Nelsoni , Signore , " observed the colonel , " if the metal of your guns were heavier . With short ...
... Nelson did at Aboukir , Signor Podestâ , a battle you seem so much to admire . " " That would be a manœuvre worthy of a follower of Nelsoni , Signore , " observed the colonel , " if the metal of your guns were heavier . With short ...
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Page 7 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar Comes down upon the waters, all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse ; And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 168 - Returned the Chief his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — "Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 156 - Wearied, I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go Is to stay here; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.
Page 104 - He saw with his own eyes the moon was round, Was also certain that the earth was square, Because he had journey'd fifty miles, and found No sign that it was circular anywhere...